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Brett candidly recalls the Pine Tar Game

By Tim Kurkjian
ESPN The Magazine

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

It might be the most replayed baseball highlight from the last quarter century: George Brett -- eyes bulging, arms flailing -- sprinting out of the visitor's dugout at Yankee Stadium with intent, it seemed, to kill the home plate umpire, Tim McClelland. "That," Yankees pitcher Goose Gossage said, "was the maddest human being that I've ever seen in my life." It was the famed Pine Tar Game -- Royals against the Yankees -- and Thursday marks its 25th anniversary. Brett says he can't count the nu ...

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